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Former Exelon CEO Chris Crane remembered for “transformational milestones”
Crane
Exelon announced that Chris Crane, the company’s former chief executive, passed away on Saturday in Chicago at the age of 65.
Crane served as the company’s president and CEO from 2012 until his retirement in December 2022. During his tenure, he steered the energy company through several transformational milestones, including the successful mergers with Constellation Energy in 2012 and Pepco Holdings in 2016, creating the largest utility business by customer count in the United States.
In 2022, with the spin-off of Constellation as the generation and retail side of energy business (with the largest U.S. nuclear fleet), Crane led the creation of a stand-alone transmission and delivery energy company.
T. Kaneko, K. Hayashi, R. Ichiki, R. Hatakeyama (18R15)
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 51 | Number 2 | February 2007 | Pages 103-105
Technical Paper | Open Magnetic Systems for Plasma Confinement | doi.org/10.13182/FST07-A1326
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Parallel and perpendicular plasma flow velocity shears are independently controlled and superimposed in magnetized plasmas using a modified plasma-synthesis method with concentrically three-segmented electron and ion emitters. The parallel flow velocity shear is observed to destabilize the electron drift-wave instability depending on the shear strength, while the perpendicular flow velocity shear superimposed on the parallel flow velocity shear is demonstrated to suppress the instability even in the presence of the parallel flow velocity shear.
